Is Speedtest safe to use?

Speedtest integrates 47 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, analytics, and support. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Location, Identifiers, Usage Data, and Other Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Location, User Content, Identifiers, and Usage Data and 1 more category. It includes 2 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Speedtest need?

Speedtest requests 7 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always & When In Use), Save to Photo Library, and Local Network.

What data does Speedtest collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, Speedtest declares cross-app tracking via Location, Identifiers, Usage Data, and Other Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Location, User Content, Identifiers, Usage Data, and Other Data. It collects Contact Info, Usage Data, and Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does Speedtest have?

Speedtest integrates 47 third-party SDKs. 2 for advertising, 9 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 6 for customer support, 1 for social integration, 14 for infrastructure, and 12 for other.

Does Speedtest use Google SDKs?

Yes. Speedtest includes 16 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase Cloud Messaging, Firebase A/B Testing, Firebase Core, Firebase In-App Messaging, Firebase Performance, Firebase Remote Config, Firebase Remote Config Interop, Firebase Sessions, Google Data Transport, Firebase Crashlytics, Google Sign-In, Firebase Core Extension, Firebase Core Internal, Firebase Installations, Firebase Shared Swift, and Google Utilities. These are used for cloud infrastructure and services, not advertising.

Does Speedtest use App Tracking Transparency?

Yes. Speedtest requests the App Tracking Transparency permission, which means it asks for your consent to track your activity across other companies' apps and websites.

Does Speedtest access your location?

Yes. Speedtest requests location access. The developer states: "Your location is used to choose the optimal server on which to run a speed test.".

Does Speedtest access your camera?

Speedtest requests access to your camera. The developer says this is for "Access to the camera is needed to take photos". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Speedtest run in the background?

Yes. Speedtest registers 2 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to Speedtest?

Other utilities apps include 1.1.1.1 , InstaWrite AI , AI Identifier , ExtraSpace , Authenticator , and Authenticator . Each app takes a different approach to utilities and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Utilities · Privacy report

Speedtest by Ookla

Free · ★4.5 · Ookla

Is Speedtest safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. Speedtest is built with more third-party tracking code than 90% of the utilities we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 112 utilitiesHeavy

Trackers from other companies11 · a lot

typical utilities: 4

Data the app links to you5 types · some

typical utilities: 1 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Speedtest links 5 categories of your data to you.

From the developer's own App Store privacy label. These are the kinds of data Speedtest ties to your identity, and it also declares it shares data to track you across other apps.

LocationUser ContentIdentifiersUsage DataOther Data

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 2 companies.

Third-party SDKs found in the app, matched to the company that publishes each. Present in the code; we do not observe what they transmit.

🇺🇸GoogleAnalytics

Firebase, AdMob and Google analytics SDKs, built to record how you use the app and serve ads.

SDKs

🏢Other third partiesadvertising

A third-party SDK.

SDKs

How it compares

Where it sits among utilities.

Every one of these apps we have scanned, on the two measures above: third-party trackers it carries (across) and data it links to you on its own label (up). Toward the top right is more invasive.

Each dot is one utilitie app. Speedtest sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking than most.

Other signals

One more flag.

Each is a fact read straight from the app. The same checks run on every app we scan. Only the ones that apply here are shown.

It declares cross-app tracking

Its own App Store label says it tracks you across other companies apps and websites using your advertising identifier.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 47 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 11 are third-party trackers.

2advertising

9analytics

1crash reporting

1push & messaging

34standard libraries

11 of the 47 are third-party trackers. One is a push-notification SDK that delivers notifications, rather than tracking you across apps. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

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GoogleAnalytics · USA

Firebase A/B Testing · Firebase Core · Firebase In-App Messaging · Firebase Performance · Firebase Remote Config · Firebase Remote Config Interop · Firebase Sessions · Google Data Transport

Other third partiesadvertising

Amazon Publisher Services (DTB) · Open Measurement (Prebid) · OneTrust Privacy/Consent

Push & messaging1 · notifications

Standard libraries34 · on-device

The app's own code plus open-source interface, storage and networking libraries.

How we know this

Counterspy downloads the app from the App Store and statically analyzes its compiled binary. Embedded SDKs are matched against a signature database and resolved to the company that operates each. We also read the developer's App Store privacy label, which lists the data the app says it collects and links to you. We do not run the app or intercept its traffic, so we report capabilities present in the code and the developer's own disclosures, not proven transmission. We assess privacy and data collection, not malware, security flaws, or developer intent. Reports are automated and never edited for payment. Scan v7.0.0, 2026-04-03.

Third-party trackers are advertising, analytics and attribution SDKs detected by static signature matching. Presence shows a capability is compiled in, not that it ran or transmitted data.
"Data the app links to you" is the count of data categories the developer declares as Data Linked To You in its App Store privacy label. Labels are self-reported and not verified by Apple.
Comparison across the 112 utilities in our corpus. Trackers: median 4. Data linked to you: median 1.